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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

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Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. Eric: Nudge it. Kate: Nudge it. Eric: Okay.

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Under FDORA, FDA to Require Most Drug and Device Trials to Submit Diversity Action Plans

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FDA declared 2016 the “Year of Clinical Trials Diversity” and that year, issued two guidance documents, one for drug and one for device studies, to standardize collection and reporting of race and ethnicity data in submissions for clinical trials (see our blog post on the final device-related guidance here ). by the end of 2023).

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

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We used all of our political capital to make sure it happens in Chicago, which is where we started for the literature Updates back in 2016, back when it was just me and Ken, and then we brought in Alex, like two years later. Annie 05:16 So if you look back in history, I think Eric and Ken have been doing this since 2016. Go Cubs, go.

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Senator Durbin Has Questions About FDA’s “Operational Capacity” to Oversee DTC Prescription Drug Advertising Amid Workforce Reductions – Don’t We All?

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Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report finding that, for the years 2016-2018, the pharmaceutical industry spent on average for a sample of 553 drug products approximately $6 billion annually on DTC advertisements, with a significant portion of this spending allocated to television commercials. In 2021, the U.S.